Browse Digital Features

Our digital features are sets of digitized items which present a common topic, such as the American Revolution, or highlight a specific collection, such as the papers of Thomas Jefferson. They include online exhibitions, large digitization projects, digital publications, and a few third-party resources. To search instead at the item level for everything we have online, start with our Digital Collections page.

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54th Regiment

The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first military unit consisting of black soliders to be raised in the North during the Civil War. Browse online presentations of photographs and broadsides relating to a notable Civil War army regiment.

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Adams Digital Collection

This searchable digital collection (entitled, Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive) presents images of manuscripts and digital transcriptions from the Adams Family Papers including the complete correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, the diary of John Adams, and the autobiography of John Adams.

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Margaret Hall's World War I Photographs

This website allows users to browse and search all 246 photographs and 29 additional illustrative items from Margaret Hall's typescript narrative, Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country, 1918-1919. As a member of the American Red Cross in France during World War I, Massachusetts-born Margaret Hall worked at a canteen at a railroad junction in the town of Ch√¢lons. On her return home she compiled a typescript narrative from the letters and diary passages that she wrote while overseas. Her words offer a first-hand account of life on the Western Front in the last months of the war. She also copiously illustrated the text with her own photographs, which depict soldiers, canteens, and the extensive destruction and ruin following the war.

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Massachusetts Collections Relating to the Boston Tea Party

Explore manuscripts, artifacts, newspapers, broadsides and an engraving from the collections of the MHS that convey the reactions of the colonists to the Tea Act and also document meetings that culminated in the destruction of the tea on 16 December 1773. This event became known as the Boston Tea Party.

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Our Favorite Things

Full title: Our Favorite Things: Objects that Fascinate, Interest, and Inspire

Our Favorite Things connects a selection of compelling, captivating, and amusing items from our collection to the backgrounds, interests, and memories of the MHS staff. Grouped into six categories, we invite you to explore these stories.

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Thomas Jefferson Digital Collection

Featuring selections from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts at the Massachusetts Historical Society, this digital collection (entitled, Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive) includes Jefferson's manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence, Farm Book, Garden Book, book catalogs, and architectural drawings.

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